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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: Re: PDP11s vs the micros
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 03:08:38 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 24 03:08:38 1985
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In article <489@talcott.UUCP> tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:

>Finally, the thought of having a page fault pending and the CPU
>happily executing more instructions before the fault is serviced
>somehow worries me. It may play havoc with simple-minded process
>synchronisation techniques.

Which just goes to show that you shouldn't try to do OS-type things in
a simple-minded manner on a complicated computer like the '020.  Operating
systems designers have been dealing with this sort of problem for over
two decades;  in general we don't really mind a few subtle points in the
architecture that require careful attention to detail, as long as they're
well documented.
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	Geoff Kuenning
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